Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Thomas Fuller

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Kate DiCamillo

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Robert Frost

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

Anthony Foxx

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

Mark Fidrych

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.

C.S. Lewis

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Dave Barry

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

Paul Begala

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

Brooke Burke